Speech recognition system and method with cepstral noise subtraction

ABSTRACT

The invention relates to a speech recognition system and method with cepstral noise subtraction. The speech recognition system and method utilize a first scalar coefficient, a second scalar coefficient, and a determining condition to limit the process for the cepstral feature vector, so as to avoid excessive enhancement or subtraction in the cepstral feature vector, so that the operation of the cepstral feature vector is performed properly to improve the anti-noise ability in speech recognition. Furthermore, the speech recognition system and method can be applied in any environment, and have a low complexity and can be easily integrated into other systems, so as to provide the user with a more reliable and stable speech recognition result.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a speech recognition system and method,more particularly to a speech recognition system and method withcepstral noise subtraction.

2. Description of the Related Art

Speech is the most direct method of communication for human beings, andcomputers used in daily life also have a speech recognition function.For example, the Windows XP operating system of Microsoft provides thisfunction, and so does the latest Windows Vista operating system. Also,the latest operating system Mac OS X of another company, Apple, providesa speech recognition function.

No matter whether a microphone is used to carry out the speechrecognition function on a computer using Microsoft Windows XP/Vista orApple Mac OS X or a phone call is made through the service provided byGoogle and Microsoft, the speech will be processed by an electronicdevice such as a microphone or a telephone, which may interfere with thevoice signal. Also, other background noises, e.g., sounds made by airconditioners or people walking, may also greatly reduce the speechrecognition rate. Therefore, a good anti-noise speech recognitiontechnique is in high demand.

The conventional cepstral mean subtraction (CMS) used for speechrecognition (see paper [1] in the prior art Furui, “Cepstral analysistechnique for automatic speaker verification,” IEEE Transaction onAcoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 29, pp. 254-272, 1981.) hasbecome a widely used feature processing method for enhancing theanti-noise ability in speech recognition.

U.S. Pat. No. 6,804,643 has also disclosed a cepstral feature processingmethod as shown in FIG. 1. In Step S11, first cepstral mean vectors ofall the voice frames before the current voice frame are firstcalculated. In Step S12, a sampling value is then received, i.e., thecepstral feature vector of the current voice frame is used. In Step S13,the cepstral feature vector of the current voice frame has an estimatedmean vector added. The estimated mean vector is an adjustment factormultiplied by a cepstral mean vector of the preceding voice frame. InStep S14, a new estimated cepstral feature vector is calculated.

Therefore, it is necessary to provide a speech recognition system withcepstral noise subtraction to improve the function of anti-noise speechrecognition.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides a speech recognition system with cepstralnoise subtraction which includes a filterbank energy extractor, acepstral noise subtraction device, a cepstral converter, a modeltrainer, and a speech recognizer. The filterbank energy extractorobtains a plurality of first feature vectors according to a voicesignal. The cepstral noise subtraction device obtains a first featurevector of a preset voice frame and first feature vectors of a pluralityof voice frames before the preset voice frame, so as to calculate afeature mean vector, and calculate a second feature vector of a presetvoice frame according to the first feature vector, the feature meanvector, a first scalar coefficient, and a second scalar coefficient ofthe preset voice frame. The cepstral converter converts the secondfeature vector of the preset voice frame into a cepstral feature vector.The model trainer calculates a model parameter according to the cepstralfeature vector. The speech recognizer calculates a recognized voicesignal according to the cepstral feature vector and the model parameter.

The present invention provides a speech recognition method with cepstralnoise subtraction which includes the following steps. A plurality offirst feature vectors is obtained according to a voice signal. A firstfeature vector of a preset voice frame and first feature vectors of aplurality of voice frames before the preset voice frame are obtained tocalculate a feature mean vector. A second feature vector of a presetvoice frame is calculated according to a first feature vector, thefeature mean vector, a first scalar coefficient, and a second scalarcoefficient of the preset voice frame. The second feature vector of thepreset voice frame is converted into a cepstral feature vector. A modelparameter is calculated according to the cepstral feature vector. Arecognized voice signal is calculated according to the cepstral featurevector and the model parameter.

According to the speech recognition system and method of the presentinvention, the process for the cepstral feature vector is limited, so asto avoid excessive enhancement and subtraction in the cepstral featurevector, so that its operation is completed properly, and the anti-noiseability for speech recognition is improved. Furthermore, the speechrecognition system and method can be applied in any environment, andhave a low complexity and can be easily integrated into other systems,so as to provide the user with a more reliable and stable speechrecognition result.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a conventional cepstral featureprocessing method;

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a speech recognition system withcepstral noise subtraction according to the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of the cepstral noise subtractionmethod according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of the cepstral noise subtractiondevice according to the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic flow chart of the calculation of a feature meanvector according to the present invention; and

FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram of a feature mean vector calculatordevice according to the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a speech recognition system withcepstral noise subtraction according to the present invention. Accordingto the present invention, the speech recognition system 20 with cepstralnoise subtraction includes a filterbank energy extractor 21, a cepstralnoise subtraction device 22, a cepstral converter 23, a model trainer25, and a speech recognizer 27. The filterbank energy extractor 21obtains a plurality of first feature vectors according to a voicesignal. In this embodiment, the filterbank energy extractor 21 is a logMel filterbank energy extractor. By the use of the log Mel filterbankenergy extractor, the first feature vectors are log Mel filterbankenergy feature vectors.

The cepstral noise subtraction device 22 obtains a first feature vectorof a preset voice frame and first feature vectors of a plurality ofvoice frames before the preset voice frame, so as to calculate a featuremean vector, and calculate a second feature vector of a preset voiceframe according to the first feature vector, the feature mean vector, afirst scalar coefficient, and a second scalar coefficient of the presetvoice frame.

FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of the cepstral noise subtractiondevice according to the present invention. The cepstral noisesubtraction device 22 of the present invention includes a feature meanvector calculator device 41, a first multiplier 42, a first adder 43, asecond multiplier 44, a comparator 45, and a multiplexer 46. The featuremean vector calculator device 41 obtains the first feature vector of thepreset voice frame and the first feature vectors of the plurality ofvoice frames before the preset voice frame, so as to calculate thefeature mean vector.

In this embodiment, the number of the plurality of voice frames beforethe preset voice frame is between 2 and a total number of voice framesof a sentence. If the total number of the voice frames of a sentence isN, the feature mean vector calculator device 41 obtains the firstfeature vector of the N voice frames before the preset voice frame, andcalculates the feature mean vector, which is expressed by Formula (1)below:

$\begin{matrix}{\overset{\_}{X} = {\frac{1}{N}\left( {X_{t - {({N - 1})}} + \ldots + X_{t - 2} + X_{t - 1} + X_{t}} \right)}} & (1)\end{matrix}$

where X_(t) is the first feature vector of the preset voice frame,X_(t-1) to X_(t-(N-1)) are the first feature vectors of the plurality ofvoice frames before the preset voice frame, N is the number of the voiceframes, and X is the feature mean vector.

FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram of the feature mean vectorcalculator device according to the present invention. The feature meanvector calculator device 41 of the present invention includes aplurality of delayers 411, 412, 415, a second adder 416, and a thirdmultiplier 417. Each delayer delays a unit of time, so as to obtain thefirst feature vectors of the plurality of voice frames before the presetvoice frame. The second adder 416 sums the first feature vectors, so asto calculate a sum of the first feature vectors (X_(t-(N-1))+ . . .+X_(t-2)+X_(t-1)+X_(t)). The third multiplier 417 multiplies the sum ofthe first feature vectors (X_(t-(N-1))+ . . . +X_(t-2)+X_(t-1)+X_(t))with a reciprocal (1/N) of the number of the voice frames, so as tocalculate the feature mean vector X.

FIG. 5 is a schematic flow chart of the calculation of the feature meanvector according to the present invention. First, in Step S52, aparameter Temp is set as a zero vector. In Step S53, a parameter p isset as zero, where the p indicates the p^(th) voice frame. In Step S54,the first feature vectors of the preset voice frames are summed tocalculate a sum of the first feature vectors. In Steps S55 and S56,whether the p^(th) voice frame has reached N-1 or not is determined. Ifnegative, p is incremented. The step of adding p is the above step ofusing a delayer to delay a unit of time, so as to obtain the firstfeature vectors of the plurality of voice frames before the preset voiceframe. In Step S57, if the p has reached the number of N-1, the sum ofthe first feature vectors (Temp) is multiplied with the reciprocal (1/N)of the number of the voice frames. In Step S58, the feature mean vectorX is calculated.

In the above embodiment, the feature mean vector is calculated throughan arithmetic mean. However, in the feature mean vector calculatordevice and method of the present invention, the mean calculation methodsincluding geometric mean, median, mode, or norm may also be used tocalculate the feature mean vector.

In FIG. 4, after the feature mean vector calculator device 41 calculatesthe feature mean vector, the first multiplier 42 multiplies the featuremean vector ( X) by the negative value (−α) of the first scalarcoefficient to calculate a first multiplication result (−α· X). Thefirst adder 43 adds the first feature vector (X_(t)) of the preset voiceframe with the first multiplication result (−α· X) to calculate anaddition result (X_(t)−α· X). The second multiplier 44 multiplies thefirst feature vector (X_(t)) of the preset voice frame by the secondscalar coefficient (β) to calculate a second multiplication result(β·X_(t)). The comparator 45 compares whether the addition result(X_(t)−α· X) is greater than the second multiplication result (β·X_(t)),and outputs a control signal to the multiplexer 46. The multiplexer 46switches the second feature vector ({circumflex over (X)}_(t)) of thepreset voice frame into the addition result (X_(t)−α· X) or the secondmultiplication result (β·X_(t)) according to the control signal.

Therefore, in the system and method of the present invention, after thecepstral noise subtraction device 22 calculates the feature mean vector,the feature vector and the feature mean vector of the preset voice frameare operated under certain conditions, which is expressed by Formula(2):

$\begin{matrix}{{\hat{X}}_{t} = \left\{ \begin{matrix}{{X_{t} - {\alpha \cdot \overset{\_}{X}}}\mspace{14mu}} & {{{if}\mspace{14mu} X_{t}} > {\frac{\alpha}{1 - \beta} \cdot \overset{\_}{X}}} \\{\beta \cdot X_{t}} & {otherwise}\end{matrix} \right.} & (2)\end{matrix}$

where, when the addition result (X_(t)−α· X) is greater than the secondmultiplication result (β·X_(t)), the second feature vector ({circumflexover (X)}_(t)) of the preset voice frame is the addition result(X_(t)−α· X), and when the addition result (X_(t)−α· X) is smaller thanthe second multiplication result (β·X_(t)), the second feature vector({circumflex over (X)}_(t)) of the preset voice frame is the secondmultiplication result (β·X_(t)). Moreover, the first scalar coefficient(α) is between 0.01 and 0.99, and the second scalar coefficient (β) isbetween 0.01 and 0.99.

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of the cepstral noise subtractionmethod according to the present invention. First, in Step S31, aparameter n is set as 1, where n indicates the n^(th) voice frame, andthe input speech is assumed to have L voice frames in this embodiment.In Step S32, the feature mean vector is calculated, which may refer tothe description of FIGS. 5 and 6, and will not be repeated herein. Thus,the first feature vector of the preset voice frame (n) and the firstfeature vectors of the plurality of voice frames before the preset voiceframe are obtained to calculate the feature mean vector. Then thefeature mean vector ( X) is multiplied by the negative value (−α) of thefirst scalar coefficient to calculate a first multiplication result (−α·X). Then the first feature vector (X_(t)) of the preset voice frame isadded to the first multiplication result (−α· X) to calculate theaddition result (X_(t)−α· X). Then, the first feature vector (X_(t)) ofthe preset voice frame is multiplied by the second scalar coefficient(β) to calculate a second multiplication result (β·X_(t)).

In Step S33, whether a condition A is true or not is determined. Thecondition A is the condition in the above Formula (2), i.e., whether theaddition result (X_(t)−α· X) is greater than the second multiplicationresult (β·X_(t)). In Step S34, when the addition result (X_(t)−α· X) isgreater than the second multiplication result (β·X_(t)), a firstoperation is performed to make the second feature vector ({circumflexover (X)}_(t)) of the preset voice frame into the addition result(X_(t)−α· X). In Step S35, when the addition result (X_(t)−α· X) issmaller than the second multiplication result (β·X_(t)), a secondoperation is performed to make the second feature vector ({circumflexover (X)}_(t)) of the preset voice frame into the second multiplicationresult (β·X_(t)). In Step S36, the second feature vector ({circumflexover (X)}_(t)) of the preset voice frame is calculated through the aboveoperations.

In Steps S37 and S38, if the input speech in this embodiment is assumedto have L voice frames, the calculation should be performed L times todetermine whether the preset voice frame (n) has reached L; if negative,n is incremented. In Step S39, the second feature vectors ({circumflexover (X)}_(t)) of all voice frames are calculated.

In FIG. 2, the cepstral converter 23 converts the second feature vectorof the preset voice frame into a cepstral feature vector. In thisembodiment, the cepstral converter 23 is a discrete cosine transformer,and the cepstral feature vector is a Mel cepstral feature vector. Themodel trainer 25 calculates a model parameter according to the cepstralfeature vector. The speech recognizer 27 calculates the recognized voicesignal according to the cepstral feature vector and the model parameter.

The speech recognition system 20 with cepstral noise subtraction of thepresent invention further includes a differential operator 24 forcalculating a first-order difference, or a first-order difference and asecond-order difference, or a first-order difference to a high-orderdifference of the cepstral feature vector. In FIG. 2, the speech passesthrough the filterbank energy extractor 21, the cepstral noisesubtraction device 22, the cepstral converter 23, the differentialoperator 24, and the speech recognizer 27, and thus, the recognizedvoice signal is calculated. The right side of the dashed line isreferred to as a recognition phase. At the left side of the dashed line,the process through the model trainer 25 and a speech model parameterdatabase 26 is referred to as a training phase. The differentialoperator 24 may be disposed in the recognition phase or the trainingphase to perform a difference operation.

The system and method of the present invention conduct experiments underthe international standard Aurora-2 speech database environment toevaluate the anti-noise ability. The speech database Aurora-2 used inthe experiment is issued by the European Telecommunications StandardsInstitute (ESTI), and is a consecutive English number speech containingnoise. The noise includes eight different kinds of additive noises andtwo channel effects with different characteristics. The additive noisein the speech database includes airport, babble, car, exhibition,restaurant, subway, street and train station, which are added to cleanspeech according to different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). The SNRincludes 20 dB, 15 dB, 10 dB, 5 dB, 0 dB, and −5 dB. The channel effectincludes two standards,—G.712 and MIRS, established by the InternationalTelecommunication Union (ITU). According to different types of channelnoise and additive noise added to the test speech, the Aurora-2 isdivided into three test groups, Set A, Set B, and Set C. Set Arepresents stationary noises, and Set B represents nonstationary noises.Besides the stationary and nonstationary noise, Set C further uses thechannel effects G.712 and MIRS that are different from the trainingspeech. The average recognition rate in all kinds of noises is obtainedby calculating the average value of 20 dB to 0 dB.

The speech recognition experiment is used together with an HTK (HiddenMarkov Model Toolkit) development tool. The HTK is a hidden Markov model(HMM) developed by the electrical mechanism department in CambridgeUniversity. Thus, a speech recognition system with an HMM architecturemay be developed conveniently and quickly.

The settings of the acoustic models are described as follows. Eachnumber model (1-9, zero, and oh) is modeled by a continuous densityhidden Markov model (CDHMM) in a left-to-right form, and includes 16states. Each state is modeled by three Gaussian mixture distributions.Moreover, the silence model includes two models, namely a silence modelincluding three states indicating the silence at the beginning and theend of a sentence, and a pause model including 6 states indicating ashort intermittence between words in the sentence. All the abovetraining of the acoustic models and all the experiments are accomplishedin the Aurora-2 speech database environment working together with theHTK tool suit.

As for the feature extractor, the evaluation experiment on the systemand method of the present invention employs the Mel-frequency cepstralcoefficients (MFCCs) as the speech feature vectors. The system andmethod of the present invention perform operations on log Mel filterbankenergy excluding the log energy. The log Mel filterbank energy and theMel-frequency cepstral coefficient are in a linear conversionrelationship, and thus, the two are equivalent to each other. The voiceframe length is sampled at 25 ms, and the voice frame shift is 10 ms.The information of each voice frame is indicated by 39-dimension,including 12-dimension Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient and1-dimension log energy. Meanwhile, the first-order differencecoefficient (delta coefficient) and the second-order differencecoefficient (acceleration coefficient) corresponding to the 13-dimensionfeature are selected.

The recognition result is shown in FIG. 1. Compared with the cepstralmean substraction (CMS) and the prior American patent (U.S. Pat. No.6,804,643 B1), the system and method of the present invention haveobviously improved word accuracy, and the maximum word accuracy is shownin bold. As for the overall performance of set A, set B, and set C, thesystem and method of the present invention may effectively improve theanti-noise speech recognition rate, and are also proved to be stable andeffective.

The speech recognition system and method limit the process for thecepstral feature vector, so as to avoid excessive enhancement andsubtraction in the cepstral feature vector, so that its operation isperformed properly to improve anti-noise ability in speech recognition.Furthermore, the speech recognition system and method can be applied inany environment, and have a low complexity and can be easily integratedinto other systems, so as to provide the user with a more reliable andstable speech recognition result.

While the embodiment of the present invention have been illustrated anddescribed, various modifications and improvements can be made by thoseskilled in the art. The embodiments of the present invention aretherefore described in an illustrative but not restrictive sense. It isintended that the present invention may not be limited to the particularforms as illustrated, and that all modifications that maintain thespirit and scope of the present invention are within the scope asdefined in the appended claims.

TABLE 2 the comparison between the word recognition rates of MFCC andthree compensation methods in the Aurora-2 Train- Subway Street SubwayBabble Car Exhibition Average Restaurant Street Airport static Average(M

(MIR

Average (a) MFCC Clean 98.93 99 98.96 99.2 99.0225 98.93 99 98.96 99.299.0225 99.14 98.97 99.055 20 dB 97.05 90.15 97.41 96.39 95.25 89.9995.74 90.64 94.72 92.7725 93.46 95.13 94.295 15 dB 93.49 73.76 90.0492.04 87.3325 76.24 88.45 77.01 83.65 81.3375 86.77 88.91 87.84 10 dB78.72 49.43 67.01 75.66 67.705 54.77 67.11 53.86 60.29 59.0075 73.974.43 74.165  5 dB 52.16 26.81 34.09 44.83 39.4725 31.01 38.45 30.3327.92 31.9275 51.27 49.21 50.24  0 dB 26.01 9.28 14.46 18.05 16.95 10.9617.84 14.41 11.57 13.695 25.42 22.91 24.165 −5 dB 11.18 1.57 9.39 9.67.935 3.47 10.46 8.23 8.45 7.6525 11.82 11.15 11.485 Average 69.48649.886 60.602 65.394 61.342 52.594 61.518 53.25 55.63 55.748 66.16466.118 66.141 (b) CMS Clean 98.93 99.09 99.02 99.04 99.02 98.93 99.0999.02 99.04 99.02 99.08 99.06 99.07 20 dB 95.67 94.11 96.72 94.48 95.24592.91 95.65 94.63 96.14 94.8325 95.52 96.1 95.81 15 dB 89.32 81.41 89.5685.84 86.5325 80.56 88.39 85.36 87.2 85.3775 89.13 90.3 89.715 10 dB68.96 57.07 67.94 64.05 64.505 61.22 66.17 66.33 66.21 64.9825 71.3273.13 72.225  5 dB 38.56 28.48 34.95 31.04 33.2575 35.68 38.33 37.5234.46 36.4975 38.47 44.95 41.71  0 dB 16.79 10.7 14.08 9.53 12.775 13.4216.81 18.22 14.13 15.645 15.08 18.86 16.97 −5 dB 11.39 4.78 8.92 7.378.115 5.65 10.31 7.99 8.33 8.07 11.54 11.22 11.38 Average 61.86 54.35460.65 56.988 58.463 56.758 61.07 60.412 59.628 59.467 61.904 64.66863.286 (c) Prior art (U.S. Pat. No. 6,804,643 B1) Clean 97.73 97.34 97.798.49 97.815 97.73 97.34 97.7 98.49 97.815 97.05 97.1 97.075 20 dB 92.6992.41 93.53 90.96 92.3975 91.74 92.26 91.83 93.52 92.3375 86.34 89.5187.925 15 dB 83.79 80.99 84.82 80.41 82.5025 80.78 83.62 81.15 82.3281.9675 75.28 79.9 77.59 10 dB 66.99 60.4 62.87 62.02 63.07 60.39 63.3960.39 60.04 61.0525 57.94 63.45 60.695  5 dB 42.77 31.47 32.03 35.9835.5625 37.45 37.7 33.1 30.82 34.0175 35.62 41.17 38.395  0 dB 22.0414.24 12.2 15.06 15.885 14.52 16.87 18.88 12.03 15.575 19.1 19.26 19.18−5 dB 13.94 9.46 9.07 9.07 10.385 7.95 10.43 10.77 8.05 9.3 13.94 10.5212.23 Average 61.656 55.902 57.09 56.886 57.8835 56.376 58.768 57.0755.746 56.99 54.856 58.658 56.757 (d) The present invention Clean 98.7499 98.87 99.11 98.93 98.74 99 98.87 99.11 98.93 98.89 99.03 98.96 20 dB96.87 95.22 97.2 95.19 96.12 94.47 96.7 96.15 96.7 96.005 96.1 96.6796.385 15 dB 93.21 84.98 93.11 90.19 90.3725 84.89 90.99 89.83 89.5188.805 92.26 93.17 92.715 10 dB 77.74 62.03 73.64 71.8 71.3025 64.5472.34 70.18 71.18 69.56 79.46 80.47 79.965  5 dB 46.91 31.62 37.16 38.6638.5875 37.89 41.66 39.9 37.15 39.15 52.29 51.03 51.66  0 dB 20.97 13.0312.29 13.48 14.9425 16.12 17.2 18.76 11.94 16.005 21.52 21.64 21.58 −5dB 11.27 6.32 8.92 8.42 8.7325 7.03 10.61 9.13 7.25 8.505 12.25 10.5211.385 Average 67.14 57.376 62.68 61.864 62.265 59.582 63.778 62.96461.296 61.905 68.326 68.596 68.461

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1. A speech recognition system with cepstral noise subtraction,comprising: a filterbank energy extractor, for obtaining a plurality offirst feature vectors according to a voice signal; a cepstral noisesubtraction device, for obtaining a first feature vector of a presetvoice frame and first feature vectors of a plurality of voice framesbefore the preset voice frame, so as to calculate a feature mean vector,and calculate a second feature vector of a preset voice frame accordingto the first feature vector, the feature mean vector, a first scalarcoefficient, and a second scalar coefficient of the preset voice frame;a cepstral converter, for converting the second feature vector of thepreset voice frame into a cepstral feature vector; a model trainer, forcalculating a model parameter according to the cepstral feature vector;and a speech recognizer, for calculating a recognized voice signalaccording to the cepstral feature vector and the model parameter.
 2. Thespeech recognition system according to claim 1, wherein the cepstralnoise subtraction device comprises: a feature mean vector calculatordevice, for obtaining the first feature vector of the preset voice frameand the first feature vectors of the plurality of voice frames beforethe preset voice frame, so as to calculate the feature mean vector; afirst multiplier, for multiplying the feature mean vector by a negativevalue of the first scalar coefficient, so as to calculate a firstmultiplication result; a first adder, for adding the first featurevector of the preset voice frame with the first multiplication result,so as to calculate an addition result; a second multiplier, formultiplying the first feature vector of the preset voice frame by thesecond scalar coefficient, so as to calculate a second multiplicationresult; a comparator, for comparing whether the addition result isgreater than the second multiplication result, and outputting a controlsignal; and a multiplexer, for switching the second feature vector ofthe preset voice frame into the addition result or the secondmultiplication result according to the control signal.
 3. The speechrecognition system according to claim 2, wherein when the additionresult is greater than the second multiplication result, the secondfeature vector of the preset voice frame is the addition result, andwhen the addition result is smaller than the second multiplicationresult, the second feature vector of the preset voice frame is thesecond multiplication result.
 4. The speech recognition system accordingto claim 3, wherein the first scalar coefficient is between 0.01 and0.99, and the second scalar coefficient is between 0.01 and 0.99.
 5. Thespeech recognition system according to claim 2, wherein the feature meanvector calculator device comprises: a plurality of delayers, eachdelaying a unit of time to obtain the first feature vectors of theplurality of voice frames before the preset voice frame; a second adder,for summing the first feature vectors, so as to calculate a sum of thefirst feature vectors; and a third multiplier, for multiplying the sumof the first feature vectors by a reciprocal of the number of the voiceframes, so as to calculate the feature mean vector.
 6. The speechrecognition system according to claim 2, wherein the feature mean vectorcalculator device calculates the feature mean vector through meancalculation methods including geometric mean, median, mode, or norm. 7.The speech recognition system according to claim 1, wherein a number ofthe plurality of voice frames before the preset voice frame is between 2and the total number of voice frames of a sentence.
 8. The speechrecognition system according to claim 1, further comprising adifferential operator for calculating a first-order difference, or afirst-order difference and a second-order difference, or a first-orderdifference to a high-order difference of the cepstral feature vector. 9.The speech recognition system according to claim 1, wherein thefilterbank energy extractor is a log Mel filterbank energy extractor.10. The speech recognition system according to claim 9, wherein thecepstral converter is a discrete cosine transformer.
 11. A speechrecognition method with cepstral noise subtraction, comprising:obtaining a plurality of first feature vectors according to a voicesignal; obtaining a first feature vector of a preset voice frame andfirst feature vectors of a plurality of voice frames before the presetvoice frame, so as to calculate a feature mean vector; calculating asecond feature vector of a preset voice frame according to the firstfeature vector, the feature mean vector, a first scalar coefficient, anda second scalar coefficient of the preset voice frame; converting thesecond feature vector of the preset voice frame into a cepstral featurevector; calculating a model parameter according to the cepstral featurevector; and calculating a recognized voice signal according to thecepstral feature vector and the model parameter.
 12. The speechrecognition method according to claim 11, wherein the step ofcalculating a second feature vector of the preset voice frame furthercomprises: obtaining the first feature vector of the preset voice frameand first feature vectors of the plurality of voice frames before thepreset voice frame, so as to calculate the feature mean vector;multiplying the feature mean vector by a negative value of the firstscalar coefficient, so as to calculate a first multiplication result;adding the first feature vector of the preset voice frame with the firstmultiplication result, so as to calculate an addition result;multiplying the first feature vector of the preset voice frame with thesecond scalar coefficient, so as to calculate a second multiplicationresult; comparing whether the addition result is greater than the secondmultiplication result, and outputting a control signal; and switchingthe second feature vector of the preset voice frame into the additionresult or the second multiplication result according to the controlsignal.
 13. The speech recognition method according to claim 12, whereinwhen the addition result is greater than the second multiplicationresult, the second feature vector of the preset voice frame is theaddition result, and when the addition result is smaller than the secondmultiplication result, the second feature vector of the preset voiceframe is the second multiplication result.
 14. The speech recognitionmethod according to claim 11, wherein the step of calculating a featuremean vector further comprises: using a plurality of delayers eachdelaying a unit of time to obtain the first feature vectors of theplurality of voice frames before the preset voice frame; summing thefirst feature vectors to calculate a sum of the first feature vectors;and multiplying the sum of the first feature vectors with a reciprocalof the number of the voice frames, so as to calculate the feature meanvector.
 15. The speech recognition method according to claim 11, whereinthe feature mean vector is calculated through mean calculation methodsincluding geometric mean, median, mode, or norm.
 16. The speechrecognition method according to claim 11, further comprising adifference operation step, for calculating a first-order difference, ora first-order difference and a second-order difference, or a first-orderdifference to a high-order difference of the cepstral feature vector.17. The speech recognition method according to claim 11, wherein thefirst feature vectors are log Mel filterbank energy feature vectors. 18.The speech recognition method according to claim 11, wherein thecepstral feature vector is a Mel cepstral feature vector.